{"id":3064,"date":"2017-11-27T05:38:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2017-11-29T22:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:21:32","slug":"de-kaj-da-how-do-you-say-a-glass-of-water-in-esperanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/de-kaj-da-how-do-you-say-a-glass-of-water-in-esperanto\/","title":{"rendered":"De kaj Da – How do you say “a glass of water” in Esperanto?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you say “a glass of water” in Esperanto?<\/h1>\n
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In last month’s\u00a0blog post<\/a>\u00a0we talked about prepositions – how to use them in general. This time we’re going to take a closer look at two specific prepositions that are often confused. These are de<\/em>\u00a0and da<\/em>. If you’re having problems with these two words, don’t feel bad. The authors of the e-mail course (used in Lernu kun Logano<\/a>) didn’t get it quite right, and when a\u00a0previous blogger<\/a>\u00a0took a crack at it, a few readers commented with questions and corrections, and I said I would come back to the topic in a new post. Here we are.<\/p>\n

What are you thinking “of”?<\/h2>\n

Both de<\/em> and da<\/em> can be translated “of”, but they are used differently.<\/p>\n

De<\/em> shows attachment or belonging.<\/p>\n